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mahatmakanejeeves

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Mon Jul 8, 2024, 07:33 AM Jul 2024

Front page of "Roswell Daily Record," July 8, 1947: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region" [View all]

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• 1947 – Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Force personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.

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Mon Jul 10, 2023: On July 8, 1947, this was the front page of the Roswell Daily Record:

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